Do you have a Passcode on your iPhone?

[bkends35]

If it wasn't for Touch ID I wouldn't use one. It works fantastic for me.

 

[LordQ]

Nah, can't be arsed. If I discover that my phone is gone, I erase everything with Find My iPhone.

What if I steal it and put it on airplane mode from control centre on the lockscreen?

 

[goobot]

Never until the 5s.

 

[Jessica Lares]

I have a 5S, so yeah I have a passcode, but otherwise have always gone without one. I have too many passwords to deal with as it is, and the app I have those in has a password of its own.

Never worried about it before, not going to worry about it now.

 

[dannyyankou]

How about a fourth option?

"Didn't have a passcode before the 5s but I use Touch ID now."

 

[John T]

Not having a passcode on a 'phone is akin to leaving home without locking the door.

 

[bransoj]

In the 3yrs i had my 3gs and with my 5 i got on launch day i've had one a couple of times for a short spell but both times just got fed up having to put it in all the time and turned it off.

Other half never bothered either until she got the 5s and now uses the fingerprint option which i suspect i would do in the same situation.

 

[bearwrestler]

Nah, just that swipe thing.

1) I dont really have anything important on there
2) If someone is interested in stealing my personal information/identity, I'm sure they can do it in other ways. They don't need an iPhone. I just have the "find my iPhone thing, and that's good enough for me, if it gets stolen.

 

[eclipse01]

Nope, too much work when my phone is on my pretty much 24/7.

 

[richwoodrocket]

I have a passcode. It's 1221. So hard.

 

[maflynn]

Yup, I have too as my company requires it, and it changes every 90 days

 

[_Refurbished_]

And nowadays, who doesn't have some info of value stored on the phone? Sheesh. Passcodes are easy safequards.

Banking app? Requires a password. All other apps that have access to my sensitive information? Again, a password is required. Unless someone wants to see the pictures I took at the Bahamas or dethrone me as the Flappy Bird champion of my phone, not much can be done on my phone without needing an additional password to login.

 

[lelisa13p]

Banking app? Requires a password. All other apps that have access to my sensitive information? Again, a password is required. Unless someone wants to see the pictures I took at the Bahamas or dethrone me as the Flappy Bird champion of my phone, not much can be done on my phone without needing an additional password to login.

Do you log out of your email account/s every time that you finish using it/them?

 

[Badrottie]

Touch ID is a mistake IMO.

 

[CPx]

Not irrelevant. Many people who have touch ID use it because it's so simple, but wouldn't otherwise use a passcode. I for one, didn't have a passcode on my 4s, but do now I have a 5s.

It's irrelevant to the poll as written.

 

[dennisfonta]

i had to remove it since it locked my ipad air

 

[Pillar]

No pass code here

 

[GlenK]

Have a 5S and use touch ID. Love it and it is so much easier to use that I thought it would. Prior to this on my 4s I had one but only turned it on when I went out. Around home I never used it.

 

[whsbuss]

Forced to have it using keychain.

 

[cynics]

I do. I've been robbed of my iPhone twice now. Also it's a good idea to have find my iPhone enabled to enable activation lock plus you can erase the phone if you have sensitive data on it.

 

[dimzen]

Always use a simple pin as passcode, now with iPhone5s I use an alphanumeric passcode & touchID.

 

[Am3r1ca16]

I have password locks on everything. iPhone, iPad,iPod, MBP

 

[arjo]

No, and I've never used it consistently. My phone is in my pocket 99% of the time so I don't see a point. All of the apps that hold my important data (banking, 1Password) have PIN access anyway, so setting it for unlock seems pointless (for me).

 

[Hummingbird12]

No, because if I am in an accident or lose my phone, I want those who find it to be able to contact people I know.

 

[charlituna]

No, never, same as screen protectors a royal PITA.

We'll see how you feel when someone jacks your phone, gets in far enough to figure out your apple id email, which is on your phone, resets the password and restores your phone to use themselves, having bypassed activation lock.

Using a passcode almost needs to be mandatory these days. Which is the main reason I am hoping that the touch id will spread to all iPhones and iPads in the very near future (say within the next six months). And I wouldn't mind seeing it modified to allow for toggled restrictions, an idea my cousin (the one referenced in my sig) had last year